Originally written by Timothy Adler on Small Business
Small business lender LendingCrowd and digital health marketing agency Thrive were the big winners at yesterday’s British Business Awards 2019.
Thrive, whose clients include Johnson & Johnson, walked away with two awards; one for the best work/life balance while director Daphne Metland won Female Business Owner (digital communications).
Meanwhile LendingCrowd, which has lent over £66m to small business over the past six years, won both Alternative Finance Provider and Business Lender.
In total 255 individuals and businesses were nominated for the British Business Awards 2019, which are now in their fourth year.
Yesterday’s event was held at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in central London where nearly 300 guests were on hand to celebrate the best of British business.
Childcare group Fennies Day Nursery and Preschool, which runs 11 children’s day care centres across southern England, won the prestigious Better Business Award.
Dane Hardie, head of commercial at Fennies, said: “For us, this award represents where we’ve come as a business over the past five years. I think the British Business Awards are fantastic with a huge amount of diversity in the businesses that are here. Coming from an industry where women make up 90pc of our workforce, that’s hugely